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Irons suffers a reversal of fortune on Broadway

25.03.09
Jeremy Irons made a return to the Broadway stage after a 25-year absence only for his new art play Impressionism to open to a gallery of critical ridicule... more

Short plays inspire long friendships

23.01.09
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Short plays inspire long friendships

23.01.09
Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National is my dream play. Yes, yes, it's a brilliant and chilling indictment of Soviet treatment of political dissidents... more

The 2008 ES Theatre Awards shortlist

24.11.08
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Co-stars in contest for best actress at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

07.11.08
Comedy co-stars Penelope Wilton and Margaret Tyzack will go head to head for honours at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

Heavyweights of the stage battle for best actor prize

04.11.08
Kevin Spacey, Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh are in the running for honours in this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

The history play man

03.06.08
Michael Frayn again delves into the past for his new play, Afterlife, about the now obscure theatre director Max Reinhardt.... more

Nervy New Labour is losing the will to live

02.04.08
The Government's poll slump has reawakened old divisions and is creating fresh headaches for Gordon Brown. Can he pull out of the spiral?... more

A good look at politics

27.03.08
Jeremy Irons is excellent in Never So Good - a thrilling portrait of a brave, haunted Harold Macmillan, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

This weapon is firing blanks

04.02.08
Weapons of Happiness is a dry piece of 1970s agitprop that doesn't make for a scintillating evening.... more

Irons to make his National debut as former PM

16.01.08
Jeremy Irons is to make his National Theatre debut in a new play on the life of prime minister Harold Macmillan.... more

A glorious epic struggle

07.08.07
Rarely has the Globe's space been such a feeder for the imagination as in Mark Rosenblatt's production of Holding Fire!, says Kieron Quirke.... more

A study in bawdy brilliance

22.05.07
The Globe's joyous production of Howard Brenton's In Extremis is a laughter-heavy brew of theological chat and good old-fashioned sex, says Keiron Quirke.... more

The spinner gets spun

06.12.06
Catch is part of the Royal Court's 50th anniversary celebrations, but Kieron Quirke finds this riff on themes of identity going downhill fast.... more

Pravda's prescience

14.09.06
Time has not been altogether kind to Pravda. What once was a scathing farce that wittily shafted the British newspaper industry is now curiously dated, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Odd couple in 12th-century terms

04.09.06
Intellectually bracing and engagingly pacy, Howard Brenton's In Extremis brings Dominic Dromgoole's inaugural season at Shakespeare's Globe to a splendid close.... more

Fanatics blow us up but their time is over

22.08.06
Howard Brenton shocked us in the Eighties, but then he fell out of favour. Now the provocative playwright is back. He talks to Fiona Maddocks about his new comedy on extremism.... more

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